Farran

55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Farran, from 156 m² to 48,895 m² (4.89 ha, 12.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Farran in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 20 Oct 2025Grant with conditions

  Retention Planning Permission for a domestic building containing a bedroom and bathroom ancillary to the main dwellinghouse, retention permission is also sought for domestic detached shed and all associated site works

  Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 25/6229

• 8 Oct 2025Awaiting validation sro

  Retention Planning Permission for a domestic building containing a bedroom and bathroom ancillary to the main dwellinghouse, retention permission is also sought for domestic detached shed and all associated site works

  Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 25/6128

• 14 Aug 2023Conditional

  Construction of a dwelling house, garage and associated siteworks, (Change of plan from previously permitted Planning Ref. No. 19/366)

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/463

• 27 Apr 2022Conditional

  Permission for retention of extension to dwelling B and permission for retention of minor alterations to fenestrations also to dwelling B, from that granted under Planning Ref. 16/636

  Retention · Cork County Council, 22/292

• 22 Apr 2022Conditional

  Construction of an extension to the front of an existing house, and alterations to the existing dwelling house and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/280

• 25 Aug 2021Unconditional

  Demolish 2 no. ruined dwellings and associated outbuildings and construct 2 no. dwellings, 2 no. domestic garages and install 2 no. sewage treatment systems and all associated site works (previous permission 10/727 also refers)

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 21/584

• 16 Dec 2020Conditional

  construction of a new detached dwelling house, septic tank, and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/742

• 17 Sept 2020Conditional

  Installation of 2 wastewater treatment systems and decommissioning of an existing septic tank serving 2 existing dwelling houses

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/501

• 17 Jan 2020Conditional

  Retention of a) Change of attic space to living accommodation. b) Installation of 6 no. Roof Lights, c) Installation of Gable Window to south-west and north-west elevations to existing dwelling house

  Retention · Cork County Council, 20/13

• 28 Nov 2019Withdrawn

  Construction of detached dwellinghouse, waste water treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/754

• 31 May 2019Conditional

  Construction of a dwelling, domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area along with all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/366

• 8 Nov 2016Conditional

  Permission to retain extension to dwelling, permission to construct extension to dwelling and to make alterations to dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/681

• 17 Oct 2016Conditional

  Demolish 2 no. ruined dwellings and associated outbuildings and construct 2 no. dwellings, 2 no. domestic garages and install 2 no. sewage treatment systems and all associated site works (previous permission 10/00727 also refers).

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/636

• 28 Jul 2014Conditional

  The re-construction and renovation of an existing derelict farmhouse and attached farm buildings on the grounds of Dunowen House, into a new family home and attached holiday let accommodation, new waste water treatment unit and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/453

• 21 Jul 2014Incompleted application

  Re-construction and renovation of an existing derelict farmhouse and attached farm buildings on the grounds of Dunowen House, into a new family home and attached holiday let accommodation, new waste water treatment unit and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/439

• 26 Oct 2010Conditional

  Demolish 2 no. ruined dwellings, and associated outbuildings and construct 2 no. dwellings, 2 no. domestic garages and install 2 no. sewage treatment systems and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/727

• 25 Jun 2010Conditional

  Demolition of an existing partly constructed dwellng and the construction of a new dwelling including the provision of a wastewater treatment system and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/443

• 26 May 2010Withdrawn

  Demolish 2 no. ruined dwellings and associated outbuildings and construct 2 no. dwellings, 2 no. domestic garages and install 2 no. sewage treatment systems and all associated site works (previous planning ref. no. 04/6956 refers)

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/369

• 12 Sept 2008Refused

  Demolish existing partly constructed dwelling and rebuild to original design, construct domestic garage and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/1667

• 9 May 2008Conditional

  Alteration and extension to the Coach House

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/855

• 16 Apr 2008Incompleted application

  Alterations and extensions to The Coach House

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/679

• 12 Mar 2008Incompleted application

  Alternations and extensions to the "Couch House "

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/477

• 31 Jan 2008Refused

  Demolish existing partly constructed dwelling, rebuild to original design and dimension and construct domestic garage and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/178

• 19 Dec 2007Incompleted application

  Demolish existing partly constructed dwelling, rebuild original design and dimensions, construct domestic garage and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/3154

• 23 Feb 2007Conditional

  Retention of alterations to dwelling - change of plans granted under planning reg: 05/7427 including omission of gable bay windows and north stairs/porch extension

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/500

The 25 most recent of 38 applications.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Farran.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Farran.

Architectural heritage

• Farrah House, house, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached H-plan five-bay single-storey over-basement Gothic-Revival style house, built c.1860, having gable-fronted breakfront end-bays to front (north) and rear (south) elevations, and gabled breakfront porch to front. Pitched slate roofs, having rendered gable copings, chimneystacks and uPVC rainwater goods. Pitched slate roof to porch having rendered gable copings. Rendered walls with chamfered rendered plinths throughout. Square-headed window openings with rendered and stone sills throughout, having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Shouldered pointed arch door opening to porch, having chamfered rendered surrounds, limestone threshold, rendered stepped approach and timber panelled door surmounted by single-pane overlight. Square-headed door opening at basement level to rear elevation, having replacement glazed timber door. Rubble stone outbuilding to east within rubble stone enclosed courtyard. Elliptical-headed carriageway opening to yard having rubble stone surround and voussoirs. Quadrant entrance to north-west comprising rendered square-profile piers and gate piers flanked by rendered walls with rendered coping.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Farran, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Farran.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Farran with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Farran · Fearann Mhic Sheoinic

Area

363,080 m² (36.31 ha, 89.72 acres)

Civil parish

Ardfield, and its townlands

Barony

Ibane and Barryroe

Electoral division

Ardfield, the unit of the census

Census 2022

838 people lived in 287 households in the Ardfield electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 21% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyva, Dunnycove, Dunowen, Greenanes

Placenames

Farran on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address. Old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.